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词汇 water-cooler
释义 water cooler
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈwɔː.tə ˌkuː.lər/ us /ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ ˌkuː.lɚ/
a machine for cooling and providing drinking water, usually in an office or other public place饮水冷却器
 
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water cooler | Business English


water cooler
noun[ C ]
 WORKPLACE (alsowater-cooler); (watercooler)ukus
a machine that supplies cool water for drinking, usually in an office or other public place:
You can add almost a quarter of a mile to your daily walking schedule simply going from desk to water cooler.
water cooler
adjective[ before noun ]
 WORKPLACE (alsowater-cooler); (watercooler)ukus
used to describe something that many people talk about at work, for example when they stop work to drink something:
water-cooler conversation/discussion/talkThe company raked in $260 million in profit, and fueled countless water-cooler conversations.
The shocking interview provided one of those water cooler moments that everyone was talking about the next day.

Examples of water cooler


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Education may happen at the watercooler.
We need to make fresh water freely available to all children; for example, there should be a watercooler in classrooms.
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The simple act of moving a watercooler turns into office warfare.
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Rushkoff mentions jokes, scandals, blogs, ambiance, i.e. anything that would engender watercooler talk, as social currency.
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The watercooler effect of the two-step flow was a means of assigning messages meaning, leading to the development of opinion dynamics.
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The storyline was referred to as a watercooler topic.
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Bigalow uses an empty watercooler bottle to trap the smoke in, and the alarm stops after only a few seconds.
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As a hypothetical, he asks if an employee would be protected in a case where the opposition was expressed in an informal watercooler chat.
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The platform metrics soon generated 27,000 page views a month and serves as a global watercooler for a workforce spread around the planet.
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Let's say each hour the office workers congregate around the watercooler.
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To put that in perspective, the typical office watercooler holds 5 gallons, or about 1.4 percent of the studys estimated daily average household use.
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Their sweat drains into a sort of watercooler, where the doctor collects a glass of it.
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Reality shows, especially, require audience engagement to generate watercooler moments.
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Known uses include small scale refrigeration equipment, small air conditioning units and drinking water coolers.
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During the year there has been further improvement in living conditions in ships, especially in bathrooms, mess fittings, water coolers and refrigerators.
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